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LLVMpipe Now Exposes OpenGL 4.2 For GL On CPUs

Phoronix - Mon, 07/06/2020 - 18:47
It was just a few days ago that the LLVMpipe OpenGL software rasterizer within Mesa finally achieved OpenGL 4.0 support while today it has crossed both OpenGL 4.1 and 4.2 milestones...

GCC Compiler Support Posted For Intel AMX

Phoronix - Mon, 07/06/2020 - 18:40
Building upon Intel working on GNU toolchain support for AMX, the newly-detailed Advanced Matrix Extensions being introduced next year with "Sapphire Rapids" Xeon CPUs, the GCC compiler support has been sent out in patch form...

A guide to Terraform for Kubernetes beginners

opensource.com - Mon, 07/06/2020 - 15:02

When I build infrastructure, I do it as code. The movement toward infrastructure as code means that every change is visible, whether it's through configuration management files or full-blown GitOps.


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Set up Vim as your Rust IDE

opensource.com - Mon, 07/06/2020 - 15:01

The Rust programming language is designed to implement systems programming with safe concurrency and high memory performance in a way that feels familiar to C++ developers. It's also one of the most loved programming languages in Stack Overflow's 2019 Developer Survey.


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9 open source test-automation frameworks

opensource.com - Mon, 07/06/2020 - 15:00

A test-automation framework is a set of best practices, common tools, and libraries that help quality-assurance testers assess the functionality, security, usability, and accessibility of multiple web and mobile applications. In a "quick-click" digital world, we're accustomed to fulfilling our needs in a jiffy. This is one reason why the software market is flooded with hundreds of test-automation frameworks.


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Top 3 Open-Source Cross-Distribution Package Management Systems for Linux

Tecmint - Mon, 07/06/2020 - 14:11
Package management or software installation on Linux systems can be very puzzling especially for newbies (new Linux users), as different Linux distributions use different traditional package management systems. The most confusing part of it

Linux 5.9 To Bring Arm Memory Tagging Extension Support

Phoronix - Mon, 07/06/2020 - 12:04
The 64-bit ARM code building up for the Linux 5.9 cycle is set to mainline Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) support as another security improvement inbound...

Linux 5.8-rc4 Released Following A Calm Week

Phoronix - Mon, 07/06/2020 - 08:49
While last Sunday Linus Torvalds was concerned over a big Linux 5.8-rc3 release, this Sunday he is reporting that Linux 5.8-rc4 is on the smaller side...

Monado OpenXR Runtime Now Supports Multi-Application Rendering / Overlays

Phoronix - Mon, 07/06/2020 - 05:47
The Monado open-source OpenXR runtime has seen a lot of features added this year and the most recent is support for OpenXR's XR_EXTX_overlay extension to allow for multi-application / overlay rendering...

Reiser5 Pursuing Selective File Migration For Moving Hot Files To High Performance Disks

Phoronix - Sun, 07/05/2020 - 21:43
Edward Shishkin continues pursuing development of new file-system functionality for Reiser5, the next-generation evolutionary advancement over the controversial Reiser4 file-system...

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